<p>I am considering switching out of AP Government for this class.</p>
<p>Has anyone taken it? Can you tell me about it's difficulty? What do you do in the course? Is it relatively difficult?</p>
<p>My second semester is going to be busy so I am just wondering how much time I should expect to put into the course.</p>
<p>I'm taking both at the moment. I LOVE AP Lit, probably because of my teacher, but still. It's helped my writing A LOT. It's difficult, but my it's one of my favorites. Don't switch out of AP Gov, though. Do you have enough history credits?</p>
<p>Personally, I think AP Lit is HARD!!! maybe because it's my teacher, but I've yet to receive an A on my in class essays sadly. It's a lot of reading, as imagined, and writing. Analyzing, picking out motifs, themes, linking them with societal standards and your own personal experiences. Although tough, it's an excellent choice and trains you to become a better writer, critical thinker, and overall, a more informed reader.</p>
<p>AP gov, on the other hand, I loved! Esp during first semester, when BIG STUFF happened! I felt more informed about the world etc. But going over the three branches and stuff like that was really boring. I mean, we've been doing that since 8th grade for pete sakes! We also did supreme court cases, and that was quite an eye opener. All the landmark cases. At least I'll be more informed than palin.</p>
<p>I'm in it now and I love it (mostly because of my teacher). Lots of reading, though, so if you put it off a night or two you get behind and you can't really participate in class discussions. We'll sometimes get in-class ORs assigned, and I think just practicing those will help on the exam. It definitely helps with writing and becoming a better literary critic, IMO.</p>
<p>It is a hard class, though, absolutely--but invaluable all the same. It's a bit more difficult than AP Language, but I can't say in terms of AP Gov because that's not offered at my school. I think you should expect to spend a good amount of time on this class.</p>
<p>A friend of mines said she used Sparknotes and Cliffnotes to get through the class without reading the material.</p>
<p>Is it possible? What are some books you guys are reading? Are the books actual novels or are they Old English writing?</p>
<p>I use spark to get through the class. It is really dependent on your teacher. For instance, in AP Lang last year, I got all A's. This year in AP Lit, I am getting all B's. My teacher is really nice, but an insane grader.</p>
<p>yeah, it does depend on the teacher. but for class discussions, I don't think you can get by with just reading sparknotes etc. it misses a lot the key themes etc.
So far, we've read
Crime and Punishment
King Lear
As I Lay Dying
Frankenstein
The Kite Runner
did a lot of poetry:
Most of Shakespeare's Sonnets
a few Modern ones
and of course the classic
Bishop
Millay
Keats etc.
and we're about to read:
East of Eden
Beloved</p>
<p>Is your teacher an old one? The AP Lit and Comp teacher I am supposed to get is a young one so I assume she is nice?</p>
<p>^^ nope. young. well, maybe mid 30s?</p>
<p>I loveee AP Lit! We read The Metamorphosis, Heart of Darkness, Slaughterhouse-Five, and The Grapes of Wrath. I think the level of difficulty depends on the leniency of the teacher you have and how well your skills are in writing/reading comprehension. Def not too hard though.</p>
<p>The one at my school is 2-3 years out of college. She looks kind of mean though. :(</p>
<p>So my situation is this now:</p>
<p>Switch out of Probability and Statistics for AP Lit & Comp OR
Switch out of AP Gov for AP Lit & Comp</p>
<p>I am not a big math person so I mind as well get out of Prob and Stats?</p>
<p>yeah, if you don't like stat/prob, why bother? might as well take something you like. I'm taking gov, lit and stats, and I have to say, stats is absolutely useless. I'm bored out of my mind in that class</p>
<p>My AP Lit class is pretty difficult but I really enjoy it (because of my teacher, as everyone else). We've read The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick (this was amazing since my teacher loves the book and has read it 10 times), Beloved, and Hamlet. We're going to read Heart of Darkness, Turn of the Screw and To the Lighthouse. It's a very nice class which involves a lot of deep thought and exploratory writing. However, I don't know if you should switch halfway through the year...</p>
<p>I think our AP curriculum calls for Moby Dick, Light in August, Passage to India, The Invisible Man, Adam Bede, and a bunch of essays and poems. It's known to be the hardest class along with physics ap. The class revolves around discussions and essay responses.</p>
<p>I think it really depends on your teacher. I'm in lang right now and there are two teachers for it at my school, one who assigns 3-5 essays a week and another who barely assigns anything. I've got the easy one. Neither of the lit teachers assign as much work as that first lang teacher, but one assigns a lot of busy work during the second quarter and the other lets seniors take it pretty easily. In both classes students still write essays and everything, but one, for example, assigns quite a few in addition to college essays during application time while the other doesn't.
So talk to people who have taken the course before, and if there are multiple teachers who use different methods, ask about their passage rates. I like being in the easy class because we get much less work and we pass the AP test at the same very high rate. So check it out thoroughly.</p>